[Rarebooks] FS: Trio of 1750 Medical Tracts- Bristol Waters, Cure-All Medicines & Jayl Fevers

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

Randolph, George, et al.  "AN ENQUIRY INTO THE MEDICINAL VIRTUES OF
BRISTOL-WATER: and the Indications of Cure which it answers"  London;
Printed for R. Baldwin: 1750.

[Bound with] "REFLECTIONS UPON CATHOLICONS, OR UNIVERSAL MEDICINES. With
some remarks on the natural Heat that is in Animals, and the luminous
Emanations from Human Bodies" by Thomas Knight.  London, 1749.

[Bound with] "OBSERVATIONS ON THE NATURE AND CURE OF HOSPITAL AND
JAYL-FEVERS, in a Letter to Doctor Mead, Physician to His Majesty" by John
Pringle.  London: 1750.

The first title is a history of the medicinal properties of the hot
springs at Bristol by a Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, a supporter
of their efficacy. All three titles are uncommon in the trade.

Hardcover. 5”x8”, [vi] + 176 pages. [and] title page + 167 pages [and]
title page + 52 pages. All bound without original preliminaries and blank
leaves. Bound together in period full calf, spine label perished, covers a
bit rubbed and soiled, else a nice clean, tight copy.  [30294]  $400 net,
ppd.

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